Archive for the 'Health' Category
Britain: Obese Mothers Drugged in Attempt to Produce Smaller Babies
April 2nd, 2012It’s tough to know where to begin on this one… Via: Herald Sun: In a world first trial, 400 overweight pregnant women in the UK and Scotland will be prescribed metformin – a drug that has been used for decades to treat diabetes and is cleared for pregnancy. Researchers are hoping that taking metformin from […]
LivOn Laboratories: Lypo-Spheric Vitamin C — A Liposomal Vitamin C Supplement
March 31st, 2012Disclosures: I have no relationship with LivOn Laboratories. I am not a medical doctor and nothing that appears on Cryptogon should be considered medical advice. — For those of you who are currently using and/or investigating high dose vitamin C therapies, I wanted to let you know about Lypo-Spheric Vitamin C, which is made by […]
Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Radioactive Waste In U.S.
March 29th, 2012Via: Fairewinds Energy Education: Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US from Fairewinds Energy Education on Vimeo. While traveling in Japan several weeks ago, Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen took soil samples in Tokyo public parks, playgrounds, and rooftop gardens. All the samples would be considered nuclear waste if found here in the […]
3D Bio-Printer
March 29th, 20127 News Reposted on YouTube: Via: Invetech: “Imagine being able to print human tissues on demand.” This was the inspiration for start-up company Organovo as they set out to build the world’s first production 3D bio-printer. For decades the goal of tissue engineers has been to advance beyond simple two-dimensional cell cultures to creating three-dimensional […]
The Rise of the Machines, as Told by Workplace Safety Signs
March 29th, 2012Via: io9: Come the robot uprising, one of the first orders of business on the insurgents’ agenda will be to breathe life into the world’s most dangerous pre-existing mechanical equipment. Fortunately for those who like to plan ahead, the vast majority of today’s hazardous machines feature warning labels that clearly illustrate all the ways that […]
Monsanto Wants to Brainwash Your Children with ‘Biotechnology Basics Activity Book’
March 29th, 2012Reason to homeschool #217-B. Via: Natural News: In response to mounting public backlash from the older generation, the biotechnology industry has launched a new propaganda campaign aimed at convincing children that genetically-modified (GM) crops are not only safe, but also an improvement over natural agriculture. Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and five other major biotechnology companies and […]
American Society for Microbiology: ‘Has Modern Science Become Dysfunctional?’
March 29th, 2012Well, well, well. I guess the American Society for Microbiology has joined the ranks of the lunatic fringe. If I had written this, Skepdick Corp-A-Ment Grant Swindling Sci-Cult members would be jamming my inbox with nonsense. Via: American Society for Microbiology: The recent explosion in the number of retractions in scientific journals is just the […]
Another One for Your Too-Much-Sitting-Is-Lethal File Folder
March 28th, 2012Via: Health Day: For better health, try standing up more, a new study suggests. Those who spend 11 or more hours a day sitting are 40 percent more likely to die over the next three years regardless of how physically active they are otherwise, researchers say. Analyzing self-reported data from more than 222,000 people aged […]
Radiation Inside Fukushima Reactor So High That New Machines Must Be Designed to Monitor It
March 28th, 2012Via: Washington Post: One of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an internal examination Tuesday that renews doubts about the plant’s stability. A tool equipped with a tiny video camera, a thermometer, a dosimeter and a water gauge was used to assess […]
TSA Bars Bruce Schneier from Giving Testimony on Full Body Scanners
March 27th, 2012Maybe he should go on the Kim Hill show instead. Via: Register: Security expert Bruce Schneier was been banned at the last minute from testifying in front of congress on the efficacy – or otherwise – of the US Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) much-maligned perv scanners. Schneier is a long-time critic of the TSA’s policies […]
